Library
The creeds, confessions and catechisms the churches read Scripture with, in public-domain texts.
- The Ecumenical Creeds
The Apostles' Creed, the Nicene Creed, the Definition of Chalcedon and the Athanasian Creed, in the English of Philip Schaff's edition. The Nicene Creed is the form the Western churches confess, with "and the Son"; the Orthodox churches confess it without those words.
- The Thirty-Nine ArticlesThe Church of England, 1571; American revision, 1801
The Articles of Religion of the Church of England, in the form the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States adopted in 1801. That revision leaves out Article XXI, on general councils, and rewrites the articles on the creeds and the civil magistrate.
- The Methodist Articles of ReligionJohn Wesley, 1784
The twenty-five articles John Wesley abridged from the Thirty-Nine Articles for the Methodists in America, adopted at the Christmas Conference of 1784.